Bands you've discovered from video games

[MrGalactus]

NUTHIN CHANGES CUZ ITS ALL THE SAAAME

 

[Magicman10893]

Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden and (by extension of the previous two) Audioslave - San Andreas

Hot Action Cop from my friend who heard "Feva for the Flava" from a racing game.

Bullet For My Valentine - Guitar Hero

 

[Discord]

Cold from XBOX game PsiOps


In fact im going to play that Game right now

 

[VanQ]

The entire Dirt 2 soundtrack.

This! Never take us alive by Madina Lake comes to mind. Also, Halo 2 got me into Breaking Benjamins.

 

[Volafortis]

Faunts, end credits from Mass Effect. Awesome song.

 

[DementedSheep]

Lacuna coil - they were in VTM:B, they even even had posters of them in the game.
Celdweller

 

[loc978]

Kidneythieves... discovered 'em in Deus Ex: Invisible War (I know, I know... I'm a blasphemer for having enjoyed that game)

 

[Macabre9037]

I learned a lot of good bands from the old Tony Hawk games, the one I specifically remember and still love to this day is Alkaline Trio in T.H.U.G.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Disturbed
Johnny Cash
Frank Sinatra
Atmosphere

- Those are all from Tony Hawk's Underground 2

 

[BrokenIcon]

Kidneythieves... discovered 'em in Deus Ex: Invisible War (I know, I know... I'm a blasphemer for having enjoyed that game)

You may be, but Kidneythieves are an excellent band. So all in all, I'd say it was worth it!

I was introduced to Flesh Field from the game Project Gotham Racing 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWmImz403nk

 

[hazabaza1]

Two steps from Hell from Mass Effect 2.
And Miracle of Sound from his songs. They're about games, so they count.

 

[purf]

Contrary to my usual likes, there are about 12 Reggae/Dub tracks in my music collection.
All but one[footnote]Max Romeo - Chase the Devil[/footnote] because of KJAH

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Can't remember all of them, but a few big ones that have become favorites:

Superbus (from a Guitar Hero game)
Lisa Miskovsky (did the Mirror's Edge song)
Hayley Westenra (from Endless Ocean)


There's also a few bands who I'd known about, but hadn't liked at first, but playing a song of theirs over and over in Guitar Hero kind of made me interested enough to try them again.

 

[Queen Michael]

Jonathan Coulton from Still Alive on Portal

This. And funny enough, some of his other songs managed to be just as good.

 

[evilstonermonkey]

Hmm... There are a lot of times where I don't really like the band aside from the one track, and I otherwise wouldn't have ever been exposed to a particular track that I unexpectedly love. Cage the Elephant's Ain't No Rest For The Wicked (Borderlands), Killing Joke's Death & Resurrection Show (one of the NFS's) and Schweine by Glukoza (GTA) good examples. That is one of my favourite things about the Guitar Hero games, and is a nice perk for other games like NFS, Burnout and the Tony Hawk games. I like hearing new things.

 

[OmegaAlucard777]

This masterpiece got me into Faunts.